136: Exploring Privilege and Why it Matters in Health & Nutrition

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Nicole McDermid is a Social Worker, Counsellor (Australian spelling) and an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, with over ten years experience working in the mental health field. Not only does Nicole practice in the clinical sphere, she is also a speaker and a fat activist with a strong sense of social justice. She writes prolifically on issues such as weight stigma, size acceptance and eating disorder recovery across a number of different social media channels.

In all facets of her work, Nicole practices from, and is informed by a Health at Every Size and Non-Diet framework. She also has a lived experience of an eating disorder, whilst living in a larger body and believes that we simply do not see enough representation of ALL people, in ALL bodies across the current eating disorder recovery narrative. Nicole is a visionary as both a clinician and an activist in the Eating Disorder sphere, drawing on both her professional expertise and lived experience to inform her practice.

Nicole has had the recent honor of presenting at the Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders in Melbourne, Australia on the issue of Weight Stigma in Eating Disorder treatment. This has been the pinnacle of Nicole’s career thus far, and she hopes that this is the start of significant systemic shifts across this space. We discuss her experiences of speaking her truth in this setting and the effect it's had on her morale and strength in continuing forward to spread awareness and solutions for

Nicole came on the podcast to discuss privilege and why it matters when we're talking about health, nutrition, social justice and more. We talk about trends on social media and ideas for how each of us can explore our own privilege and how to move forward with awareness and our eyes wide open.

Links mentioned:

Nicole's website: https://www.theeatingdisordercenter.com/nicole-mcdermid-eating-disorder-recovery-coach.html
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1:01.0	Hi everyone. Welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast and thanks so much for joining me. This is a really
1:07.7	important conversation I'm sharing with you this week and I am just excited to share this. I'm
1:14.3	excited to explore this idea of privilege with each of you. And I'm really excited to kind of dive into
1:21.4	why this matters when we're talking about food, when we're talking about nutrition, when we're talking
1:27.1	about medical care, when we're talking about nutrition, when we're talking about medical care,
1:28.5	when we're talking about social justice, all of these different elements kind of intersect
1:33.4	in a lot of different ways, but in one important way with privilege. So today I'm bringing
1:40.0	you a conversation I had with Nicole McDermid, who will introduce herself more as we get into
1:46.7	the podcast. But for now, just thanks for being here. And I'm so grateful. I'm grateful for your
1:53.7	attention in this really important conversation. So a couple things. If you're new to the podcast,
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